Posted on 03/07/2006 6:52:00 PM PST by AZRepublican
arly voting results in the Fort Bend County Republican primary election show U.S. Rep. Tom DeLay with more than twice the vote of his nearest rival, at more than 59%.
Republican challenger Tom Campbell has 28.74% of the vote, followed by Mike Fjetland with 6.93% and Pat Baig with 4.65%.
Ron Paul, incumbent congressman in District 14, polled more than 80% of the Fort Bend County early vote, while challenger Cynthia Sinatra got 19.41%.
Glenn Hegar took the early-voting lead in the race for Texas Sen. District 18, with 2,292 – or more than 57% – of the vote, while Gary Gates had 1,451 – about 36% – of the vote, and David Stall had 6.7%.
In the six-way race for state representative District 28, John Zerwas leads the pack after early voting, with 33.82% of the vote, followed by Mike Baldwin (27.5%), Michael Franks (15.3%), David Showalter (13.75%), David Melanson (4%) and Stan Kitzman (2.5%).
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This makes me feel much better. Too many things getting out of hand.
>59% is rather weak for an incumbent...
Counting isn't over, its up to 66% and you fail to condider more than two others are running as well. This is a massacre
by the hammer!
In spite of everything that worthless liberal rag, the Houston Chronicle, could do, it looks as though Tom Delay will prevail. Oh well, they still have seven months to trash him and try to punch up the Democrat corpse, Lampson.
Dude, 64% in a three-way is utterly huge.
But he is winning by similar margins in each county so it should be representative. Besides, it is not like a general election where you might only have heavily Democratic precints returns distorting the results.
who was the FReeper that was cheerleading for Campbell?
Well...these are still early returns...LOLOLOL!!!!
LOL.. and tomorrow the Dems will say -- "this is exactly the result we wanted. We can beat Tom Delay like a rented puppy in the general. We knew the Republicans wouldn;t have the guts to depose him and run a candidate that would threaten us. They played right into our hands by backing Delay."
In fact, some candidates have even been known to set up one or more ringers to run against them.
Of course, this is unknown in Texas, heheh.
Go, Tom!
Leni
I suppose macine style politics have now taken hold in Texas. Considering many issues, real or fake, with Tom Delay, the percentage of the vote for him is impressive.
You are right, Wolf Blitzer/CNN will be deeply saddened by this drastic turn of events.
Nanny, nanny, boo, boo!
You forgot the definitive, in your face, response.....
Ha...Ha
Err Machine style politics.
who was the FReeper that was cheerleading for Campbell?
No, actually, Earle's wet dream would be DeLay winning the primary and losing the general, which is the biggest fear.
I'm marginally in favor of DeLay, and I do think he's innocent of Earle's charages (although the Abramoff stuff gives me some pause), but I mostly just want to keep the seat in our column. If DeLay is the nominee, I hope he wins, but it does seem to me he's going to have some trouble hanging on.
Latest has the Hammer polling at 67%:
"In congressional races, the legal travails of Rep. Tom DeLay, R-Sugar Land, did not seem to affect his popularity in Houston-area District 22 as he was polling 67 percent. His next-closest competitor among three other Republicans was lawyer Tom Campbell, who had 24 percent. DeLay will face Democrat Nick Lampson, who lost his Beaumont-based district after redistricting, in the November election."
The Chronicle urged a vote for Tom Campbell in their lead editorial today. Of course, we know they're on the Lampson bandwagon for November, but their hatred of DeLay is beyond irrational.
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